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Letter from the Editor

We conclude our fortieth anniversary celebration of the Skeptical Inquirer

Burzynski Update: Texas Hearings End, Judges Sifting Evidence

August 2016 saw the end of arguments in the administrative

Chemtrails? In First Peer-Reviewed Published Survey, Atmospheric Scientists Say No

The news undoubtedly won’t faze committed “chemtrail” believers who long

Study Reveals How Witchcraft Harms Economies

Belief in magic is connected to a lack of economic

‘Ghostly’ Image at Haunted Stanley Hotel

A visitor to a famous—and famously haunted—hotel in Colorado claimed

Animas River Spill Spawns Conspiracy Theories

On August 5, 2015, contractors working for the U.S. Environmental

Woman Dies Searching for Monster

A young woman was killed in April 2016 outside of

Apollo Astronauts Claimed to Hear ‘Space Music’

A show that aired in February claimed that the Apollo

Superstition Masquerading as Science

Psychiatrist Makes Devilishly Weak Case for Demonic Possession

Michael Mann and the Climate Wars

Physicist and CSI Fellow Mark Boslough interviewed noted climatologist and geophysicist Michael Mann, who will be speaking at CSICon Las Vegas

Dispelling Demons: Detective Work at The Conjuring House

Joe Nickell, PhD, is a skeptical demonologist. His many books

MUFON Gets into the Bigfoot Business

Sheaffer’s “Psychic Vibrations” column has appeared in the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER

Winning the Vaccine War

Focus on Community-Based Strategies and Avoid Denigrating Parents

‘M’ Is for Mysterious Marks

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for

Houdini and the Cancer of Superstition

Massimo Polidoro is an investigator of the paranormal, lecturer, and

Bigfoot and I: Reflections on Forty Years of Skepticism

I needed a work-study job, and the new physical anthropologist

My Personal Odyssey in Skepticism

I discovered the Skeptical Inquirer shortly after its name change

From Tiny Acorns . . .

I was delighted to be invited to contribute to this

Spreading Skepticism

Recently, the science writer John Horgan took skeptics to task

A Glimpse Backward—and Forward—at Skepticism’s Big Tent

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and Skeptical Inquirer are celebrating

How I Got Hooked on the Skeptical World

Growing up in Salinas, California, during the 1970s, if you

The Day the World Changed . . . for Me

When I was twelve years old, UFOs were real. More

Skeptical Activism from the Bottom Up

For someone who may well be the only full-time skeptical

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Timeline, 2001–2016

For the twenty-fifth anniversary observance of CSICOP (now CSI) and

Nuclear Power and the Psychology of Evaluating Risk

Could it be that opponents of nuclear energy contribute to worsening global warming by failing to evaluate its risk rationally?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Geoffrey Dean’s SI article “Does Astrology Need to Be True?

SKEPTICAL ANNIVERSARIES

November 4, 1936: After Richard S. Lambert was said to